At least one of two people need to read this from the LA Times (thanks, Rich!): How I got my 89-year-old dad to crush it in the gym.

Namely, you, if you’re not exercising regularly (walk to work! climb the stairs!); and/or some senior you know.

Excuse today’s short column: I’m going out for a […]

There’s much to admire about AOC’s energy, much to share in her goals for a better world.  But boy did she ever screw up by costing New York its Amazon headquarters — and by giving Republicans yet another way to mischaracterize the Democratic Party in the next election.  A big unforced error.  Could we have […]

. . . maybe they should be assigned to private prisons.  Out of simple fairness.  They believe in privatization.  They’ve gone a long way to privatize our prison system.

In the meantime, Republican legislators might read Shane Bauer’s American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment.

From the New York Times […]

Have you seen the Governor of New Mexico’s viral video?  Thirty seconds.  (Read about it here.)

Her point — colorfully made — is that $5.7 billion could be better spent than on a wall.

I’ve already posted a forensic engineer’s assessment of the wall. (“Ridiculous.”)

Here’s a tool to build your […]

Christ was one of the two greatest Jews who ever lived.*  Though an atheist, I try to live by his teachings (which I’m pretty sure — in their judge-not-lest-ye-be-judged concern for the least among us — are embodied in the Democratic Party platform).

I offer these thoughts because I just now stumbled across Kieryn Darkwater’s first-person account […]

Snopes has verified it:

TRUE.

An image purportedly showing a screenshot from a Russian state TV news program featuring eight Republican U.S. senators . . . made its way online in January 2019, along with the claim that the pictured American lawmakers were being “honored” or “thanked” for lifting sanctions against three companies controlled […]

Step one: Fairfax resigns as Lieutenant Governor — tomorrow.  Step two: Northam appoints Jennifer McClellan to take his place — pending the special election that would follow in November.   Step three — Northam resigns and leads her November election campaign.  Which she wins.

Not to say this isn’t a tragedy.

If we can’t welcome the racially […]

Just delete two sections of the tax code and you’re done.

As colorfully argued on Seeking Alpha by “Investment Pancake,” a retired American lawyer living in Lisbon:

Summary

Wealth taxes don’t work. The tax code currently exempts the really big amounts of income entirely from tax. Instead of adding more junk into the tax law, why […]

. . . if you’re earning just a hundredth of a percent in the bank, as esteemed reader Gray Chang notes many of us are:

“Maybe you saw this last week in the New Hampshire Union Leader: Big banks are still paying American savers almost nothing, even as interest rates hit 2.5 percent.  Chase […]

Have you seen Amy Patrick’s viral Facebook post?  “Let’s have border security, by all means,” she says, “but let’s be smart about it. [The wall] is not smart. It’s not effective. It’s NOT cheap. The returns will be diminishing as technology advances. This is a ridiculous idea that will never be successfully executed and, […]